McGill linguists @ CLA 2023

McGill linguists presented work at this year's meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), held at York University May 31–June 3rd as part...
June 2, 2023

Hoover et al in Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science

A new article by Jacob Louis Hoover, Morgan Sonderegger, Steven T. Piantadosi, and Timothy J. O’Donnell, titled "The Plausibility of Sampling as an...
June 2, 2023

Will Johnston in Semantics and Pragmatics

Will Johnston's paper “Pair-list answers to questions with plural definites’’ has recently been accepted for publication in the journal Semantics and Pragmatics. The...
May 31, 2023

Summer conferences

McGill linguists will be busy presenting at conferences this summer, including: The Ba-SIS - Bantu Syntax and Information Structure conference will be held...
May 28, 2023

McGill @ SALT 33

The 33rd meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 33) was hosted by the Linguistics Department at Yale University on May 12 – 14, 2023. The conference...
May 17, 2023

Gaurav Kamath at St. Gallen Symposium

PhD student Gaurav Kamath was invited to this year's St. Gallen Symposium, a symposium connecting current and future leaders from around the world in...
May 15, 2023

McGill @ NAPhCxii

Several former and current McGillians presented their research at NAPhCxii 2023 at Concordia University May 12-14. Presentations included: Jeff Lamontagne (PhD 2020): Returning to our feature (re)presentation: Marginal...
May 15, 2023

Dissertation awards to Mathieu Paillé and Justin Royer

McGill is happy to report that two 2022 Linguistics PhD recipients have been awarded prizes for their dissertations. Mathieu Paillé has been awarded...
May 11, 2023

Graduate student fellowship news, part II

McGill is happy to report one additional graduate student fellowship, missing from the last post. Jonathan Palucci has received a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship...
May 11, 2023

McGill @ WCCFL 41

McGill linguists presented at the 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41), held May 5–7 at UC Santa Cruz. Presentations by...
May 7, 2023

Graduate student fellowship news

McGill is pleased to report on new recipients of graduate research fellowships. FRQSC doctoral fellowships were awarded to Laurestine Bradford, Gaurav Kamath, Katya...
May 5, 2023

WSCLA 2023

The 26th Workshop on Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) took place this past weekend at McGill. More than 60...
April 30, 2023